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  • Shafiqullah Shaiq is the president of Shaiq Network/Media Center a private organization based in Jalalabad city (eastern Afghanistan) running a private 2TV channel, two private radio stations, and one newspaper.
  • In 1994 he started the journey of an organization in the education sector. Today the organization is running one private TV station, three Private Radio Stations, a News Paper, and a Film Production Agency.
  • In addition, Eng. Shaiq is the Director of Afghanistan’s Independent Media Association, an association of Private Radio and TV networks mainly working in the provinces of Afghanistan.
  • Shaiq has served the Afghan Nation in different fields, including education, health, construction, media, film production, social services, promoting sports, and the role of women in Afghan society.
  • Mrs. Shaiq has been a board member of Shaiq News Network since 2000. Besides board member, she is a supervisor for Nargis F.M radio since 2007. Nargis is the first-ever radio dedicated to women and their empowering programs in Nangarhar Province. Shallah Shaiq was the first woman to start her own private business through the Radio that is still operating to this date at its own expense. The F.M radio covered all women-related issues and share them with people in a pleasant and beautiful language praised by its listeners. The Radio Staff also provided five hundred (500) women with short-term educational programs in journalism.
  • Henna shaiq who is multilingual has a bachelor’s of Political Science and Public Administration from the American University of Afghanistan and a minor in law. Currently, She is seeking JD in the United States. She has more than five years of experience in journalism, leadership, media, communications, and Marketing. she was recognized as a recipient of the Honor Award, worked for human rights and women’s equality through journalism, Collaborated with government officials as Vice President of the Political Science Club, Served as Afghan Youth Representative at the South Asian Youth Conference, Led conversation and published paper on transitional justice in collaboration with Leipzig University and worked with the NSC in the media and communication’s department.

Marshall (Halima) has a bachelor’s degree in literature from Nangarhar University and has fourteen years of interesting experience in the field of journalism As a political broadcaster and curator, he worked as a professor of journalism and public relation at AL- Falah university also he worked acted as the head of the language department in the Wazir M- Gul khan high school he has received over 30 training in the field of media from domestic and foreign trainers and has received letters of appreciation from various quarters for his outstanding services in publishing.

currently the managing director of Nargi’s radio which is special for women as he has done and has been professional and journalistic work in the related field. Mr. Rahmani has published articles, analyses, reports, and literary articles in a variety of journals in eastern Afghanistan including Sharq Magazine. 1. Narcissus Breaths This one is his first published work. This identity has been collected and written by Shafiqullah Rahmani and it was published by Nargi’s radio in the year 1391 in Nangarhar. This identity represents the biographies and poetics examples of 62 female poets from the eastern regions of present Afghanistan.

Rahmatullah Shaiq is the Afghan Parolee Community Coordinator for the APA program at HIAS. Before joining HIAS in November 2021, he was a project manager at Shaiq Network, leading multiple projects of the U.S Government in Afghanistan. These projects’ primary role was to create Civic engagement with the government through Media and roundtable programs. Prior to that, he was a public relations officer and the Social Media Manager at Shaiq Network. In Addition, he has worked as an IT manager for a Radio network in Kabul, Afghanistan. Alongside his career, he worked with a nonprofit organization and helped provide aid to newly arrived immigrants with shelter, housing, and other resources. Mr. Shaiq has also organized multiple tournaments with the primary message being peace in Afghanistan by hosting a Cricket tournament for the youth and a football tournament. Mr. Shaiq was a student at the American University of Afghanistan and has transferred to The University of Maryland to pursue his bachelor’s in Business Administration. Outside of his job, Mr. Shaiq is creating programs in Afghanistan to highlight the daily struggles of the Afghan population online.’

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